Discover
the name source of Hutong?
The word "Hutong" is said to originate from the Mongolian language,
which is one of China's minority language. In the northern grasslands
communities tended to live around wells, so hot (almost the same pronunciation
of well in Mongolian), came to mean a town. And Hudu or
Hudun are variants of it. Later it was applied to Small
Street. The sound gradually changed to hutong.
Small streets
in Beijing began to be called Hutong after the "Nuzhen" people
from the northeast, who founded the Jin Dynasty, captured the city in
1127 and make it their capital. (Their language has similarities to
Mongolian.) The custom became more widespread when the city was the
capital of the Yuan Dynasty after the Mongol conquest.
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